Brazil wants social spending on sustainable trend, Levy says

SAO PAULO, March 30 (Reuters) - The Brazilian government is
seeking to put social expenses that are mandated by the
Constitution on a sustainable trajectory for the years to come,
Finance Minister Joaquim Levy said on Monday.

The governmment's ability to implement proactive spending
policies to revive economic growth and create jobs, known more
commonly as countercyclical policies, "is over," Levy said at an
event in São Paulo.
(Reporting by Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Aluísio Alves;
Additional reporting by Renan Fagalde; Editing by Chizu
Nomiyama)